Huge cover-up at school in the beautiful San Juan Islands
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Last year a 11 year old boy was aressted at the local grade school with a large bag of pot. The aressting officers Jim terrill and Larry ? (mysteriously moved to Oak harbour WASh).(NOTE: we have only 4 cops) covered-up the arrest after realizing that the boy was an officers son. The cover-up was further asissted by the San Juan county prosecutor Randy Gaylord whos wife is a teacher at the school.The principal of the school;Gaylord`s sister-in law also took part in the cover up ; AGAINST THE 0TOLERENCE POLICY OF THE SCHOOL! The officer (Ray Clever) is reported to have beaten his son badly for taking weed to school.THE SHERRIFFS OFFICE; led by officer Steve Verithaler; also asisted in the cover-up;no charges filed; no report to local news;(although the local newspaper;(THE SOUNDER) under editor TED Grossman frequently fails to report wrongdoings by local officals. Orcas is a island in puget sound;WASH. People live under an unspoken fear of authority;THE SCHOOL, is located in a village of 300 people. Many wealthy people live here, the class seperation is drastic, some are frequently harrased by police while others are flaunting abuses of the law. Reprisal by local officals can be economic, as well as phyiscal, social, ETC. small town politics on an island are magnified 10 fold due to isolation;and extremely dangerous. TO DATE: no charges were filed;the cover-up remains intact. Local citezens are fully aware that the upper class(including local sherriff) ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE SAME RULES.THE officer in question; RAY CLEVER
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I am not surprised to read of this. How about the quite open drug dealing that happens every day just outside of Friday Harbor on San Juan island at the end of the Jackson beach parking lot? It's very flagrant and been going on for a long time now. The cops must know about it as it hardly happens in an out of the way spot.
Living on an Island only serves to magnify what happens throughout every level of our human culture. People who are better connected or closer to the top of the 'food chain' as it were will always, and must always have the upper hand. It isn't fair but if everything was equal and fair our species would cease to evolve. Conflict creates change and growth. Pointing out conflict forces us all to admit what's happening and that we cannot or will not do anything about it. It keeps the weak in line which is also crucial to the survival of any overpopulated species. Readers of this article may be interested in knowing why officer Clever was moved over to San Juan for several years before returning to make Orcas a worse place to grow up and live. Ask around about Ray. If you don't get any anwers you can ask me at everyman@workmail.com. And by the way, most people in San Juan County live under far less fear than our brothers and sisters around the globe. The law in this county is abused by young, old, rich, and poor. If a family has several generations in the islands their inbred kids can get away with looting and violence against the rich newcomers and they do just that on a regular basis. Until someone comes up with a grand solution it is better to rise up the 'food chain' than to lash out at a mute system. -- el Tiburon
I live on Orcas Island and I have for almost 4 years now. I personally know many of the people mentioned (the island has only about 4000 people so almost everyone knows everyone else). I want to correct several misstatements. First let me say I know nothing about the incident in question, however, there were several incorrect statements made that need to be corrected. First, the statement "People live under an unspoken fear of authority Nothing could be further from the truth. I lived in Seattle for over 10 years and I will tell you I had a much greater fear of authority there than I ever have had here on the island (e.g. the response to the WTO riots a few years ago). I've had several dealings with the officers in question, e.g., my son has ADHD and one day while we were gone he frightened some children so badly that they called 911. The officers that responded were extremely polite and even consoling one of them mentioning that he understood what I was going through. He even calmed me down, as I was extremely upset. The second statement "Many wealthy people live here, the class separation is drastic, some are frequently harassed by police while others are flaunting abuses of the law. Reprisal by local officials can be economic, as well as physical, social, ETC. small town politics on an island are magnified 10 fold due to isolation; and extremely dangerous." is also completely false. As with any community there are wealthy, middle class and working poor. It is true that many of the middle class hold down multiple jobs because work is seasonal on a resort island, but the vast major of the islands 4,000 residents are middle class. I have never known the police to act in any way other than professionally. There are no reprisals; in fact there are hardly any politics at all. It is a small town community and small town dynamics (gossip, local factions, intimate knowledge of your private life by almost everyone, etc.) are involved but not in terms of public policy or the authorities. I suspect that this posting is simply "sour grapes" by someone that believes that they have been wronged in the past. I am not a defender of authority figures at all. In fact, I have been writing to congress furiously to try to stop the erosion of our civil rights that has occurred since 9/11. I took great offence when the USCG WITHOUT MY PERMISSION searched my boat. I simply believe that I needed to set the record straight on the political and social structure of Orcas Island. Paul Carrick Email: carrick@starband.net Web: http://www.paulcarrick.com
I read this with great interest and much disgust at whom ever wrote this. I can speak to this as I have lived here for over 28 years and am one mentioned in this "article". I am Sgt. Steve Vierthaler and can state that this whole report is so far from the truth that it is almost funny! You can rest assured that if a juvenile was arrested at the school or where ever, for drugs, he would be handled in the same manner as ANYONE else would. Rich , poor of islander or local, it does not matter. They would be treated fairly and with respect. Everyone has their rights, good guy or bad guy and all the officers in this department know and respect that. The schol would nevr cover anything up. They might not report an incident to the sheriffs office , but mught handle it on their own. Office Clever has never beat his son and I suspect in fact he has never even spanked him! There are well over 5000 persons living here and as awhole, rich, poor and in between, most everyone gets alsong very well. I suspect that you could question almost anyone here about the cops and get a pretty good report about us. This supposed article appaers to have been written by either someone who has never lived here, someone who has been arrested and has an axe to grind, or soemone in need of mental health. No name of its author really does make one wonder. Sgt. Steve Vierthaler
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It's sounds like you just woke up... America is run by and for criminals. Once you realize this, the way the law works, in this country and in most others, starts to make perfect sense. Welcome to the real world.
I am trying to file a "police Misconduct Provision" in the San Juan islands, In order to be covered by this law, the misconduct must constitute a "pattern or practice" -- it may not simply be an isolated incident. The DOJ must be able to show in court that the agency has an unlawful policy or that the incidents constituted a pattern of unlawful conduct. Any information on this happening before is needed!!!!!! blairpaige@hotmail.com
I live and work in San Juan County. Crimes and misdemeanors re: juveniles are routinely NOT reported in the media or public venues. The actual names are never published. The case would belong to Tom Kierney of Juvenile Services located in the County Courthouse. While the write may be correct re: the treatment of this particular juvenile, he/she should investigate the case through the San Juan Superior Court to see if a case for probable cause was filed by the PAs office; it's possible that the case received a deferred sentence (common for juveniles). Just a thought.